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Word: winded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like most outstanding athletes who wind up at Harvard, Nick did not originally plan to come to Cambridge. Recruited by the U.S.'s top lacrosse schools, Johns Hopkins and Navy, he decided on Harvard after his father hinted that he was "not going to pay all that money just for me to play lacrosse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Laxmen Will Meet Cornell In First of Crucial Contests | 4/20/1968 | See Source »

...they imagine." Among Havana's own 955 bistros, added Castro, with the confident precision of a Caribbean Gallup, "72% maintain an attitude contrary to our revolutionary process, and 66% of their customers are antisocial elements." All other private businesses were ordered either to submit to nationalization or to wind up their affairs and close down. Castro even singled out for condemnation the coleros (line standers), who for a fee take a shopper's place in the queues at every store. For good measure, he also banned state businesses that were "frivolous and foster antisocial attitudes," including the national...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: End of the Capitalists | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

...naturally, caught the ball and threw crisply to third base in a vain attempt to double off McAuliffe. It was a good throw, but Dalton Jones couldn't find the handle, and the ball skittered away, letting McAuliffe score. Before the horrible inning was over, Willie Horton got a wind-blown double to center, Freehan another scratch single both off the hapless Culp--and Oyler a run-scoring single off reliever Lee Stange...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Impossible Dreamers Drop Boston Opener to Detroit | 4/17/1968 | See Source »

Playing in a stiff, biting wind at Tufts' Sagamore Springs course, the Crimson outclassed both opponents with consistent fairway shooting. But even the Crimson could not handle the grassless greens which Bruce LoPucki, Harvards number two man, described as cow pastures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golfers Easily Defeat Amherst, Tufts in Meet | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

...match at third singles was the only rough one for the Crimson. A strong wind made it difficult to place shots accurately, but Chuck Benbrook was more consistent than his Tech opponent. That, along with a strong serve, proved to be the edge and Benbrook took the match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Team Beats M.I.T. In Romp, 9-0 | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

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